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In reply to the discussion: Nobody should laugh at people who are experiencing hardship from abnormal weather in their region [View all]laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)no matter what tires you have.
I'm in Canada. All of November and December last year every time the temperature rose up to near freezing, we got freezing rain. I got caught in the worst of it one night, acting as a taxi for my drunken partying parents in December. Glare ice everywhere. Guess what? People here got stuck too. I have an all-wheel drive, traction control, ABS and winter tires and I was FUCKING TERRIFIED driving on that ice. So was everyone else. On the freeway people were at a crawl. Apparently on one bridge in the city, people couldn't get up the other side and were sliding back down backwards (I saw some of it on the overpass as I was exited the freeway).
Thankfully, in this area snow removal and sanding/salting is something that goes on regularly all winter long, so the city stopped everything, called in every single piece of equipment and by rush hour the next morning had everything taken care of. But SHEEIT, was I scared driving in that! I can't even imagine someone that's not used to ice or snow and has no winter tires (they do help with ice a little bit, actually, they are a bit more 'sticky') dealing with those conditions. I can see why there is panic. *I* was panicked! and I've lived in Canada, even in some northern towns, my entire life.
Snow - easy to deal with. Ice - not even.